Secrets, Lies and the Story of our Parents

by Kristen Drake on September 6, 2009

I read two great books this summer, Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg and Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley. I bought Losing Mum and Pup for my dad for Father’s Day. It was a book I had a hard time putting down. It is about Christopher Buckley’s parents, William F. Buckley and Patricia Taylor Buckley, in their final years together. Annie’s Ghosts tells a remarkable story about a son finding out after his mother died that she had a sister. We recently uncovered a family secret in our own household. It’s amazing what you can discover when you go searching for a birth certificate.

On a different subject, I started back to school this week. I am attending the Stetson University LL.M. Elder Law program. You can expect a shift from estate planning to elder law issues as I am inundated with the subject.

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